The Bible On Trial

Power Outage~

The day before yesterday, and having been warned via e-mail, SC Edison was going to shut off power to our neighborhood in order to change out a telephone/electric power polf that had become unsafe. The poll was located on the corner of two streets below our house, and there were three big crane trucks and other ancillary service trucks with their operators. This was a big project, and the projected time frame for theb was from 8AM to 4PM (8 hours), and given that this duration was 8 hours if felt safe in thinking that the fridge that I had loaded with extra ice would keep the regular food safe, and the ice chest would keep the freezer food frozen for that length of time.

I checked at 4 PM on the Outage page of the SCE web site, and discovered that the estmated time for completion had been extended to 8PM.  I wasn't as worried about the fridge food as much as the freezer food in our 45 quart Yeti style coolder, this being the first time we had used it for frozen food storage. I didn't know what I would find when we opened the cooler, but i expected the worst, that all our frozen food would be unfrozen, and we would not be able to save most of it.

The electricity came on just before 8PM, and it would take at least two hours for the fridge to get cold enough to put the froze food back in the freezed. Our frozen food was outside of the freezer for 14 hours. 

To my delight and surprize, when I opened the cooler everything was still well frozen, and went safely back in the freezer fo be used later.

Now you may also be surprized that my story is really not about the food or the cooler, it is about the fact that I heeded attention to the warning by SCE to prepare for an outage, and did what I had to do to preserve my household for that outage.

God has given us warning of a coming power 'outage' of truth. Are you prepared with what you need to survive?